Introduction

ANCIENT PERIOD [TO 794 A．D．]

Man＇yōshū

The Luck of the Sea and the Luck of the mountains

Kaifūsō

HEIAN PERIOD [794-1185]

KUKAI：Kūkai and His Master

The Tales of Ise

Kokinshū

KI NO TSURAYUKI：The Tosa Diary

Poetry from the Six Collections

THE MOTHER OF MICHITSUNA：Kagerō Nikki

MURASAKI SHIKIBU：Yūgao (from＂The Tale of Genji＂)

SEI SHONAGON：The Pillow Book

MURASAKI SHIKIBU：Diary

THE DAUGHTER OF TAKASUE：The Sarashina Diary

Poetry in Chinese

Ryōjin Hishō

The Lady Who Loved Insects

KAMAKURA PERIOD [1185-1333]

The Tale of the Heike

Shinkokinshū

KAMO NO CHOMEI：An Account of My Hut

Tales from the Uji Collection

The Captain of Naruto

MUROMACHI PERIOD [1333-1600]

YOSHIDA KENKO：Essays in Idleness

The Exile of Godaigo

SEAMI MOTOKIYO：The Art of the Nō

PLAN of the Nō Stage

KAN＇AMI KIYOTSUGU：Sotoba Komachi

SEAMI MOTOKIYO：Birds of Sorrow

SEAMI MOTOKIYO：Atsumori

SEAMI MOTOKIYO：The Damask Drum

The Bird-Catcher in Hades

Busu

Poems in Chinese by Buddhist Monks

Three Poets at Minase

The Three Priests

TOKUGAWA PERIOD [1600-1868]

IHARA SAIKAKU：What the Seasons Brought to the Almanac-Maker

IHARA SAIKAKU：The Umbrella Oracle

IHARA SAIKAKU：The Eternal Storehouse of Japan

MATSUO BASHO：The Narrow Road of Oku

MATSUO BASHO：Prose Poem on the Unreal Dwelling

MUKAI KYORAI：Conversations with Kyorai

Haiku by Bashō and His School

Chikamatsu on the Art of the Puppet Stage

CHIKAMATSU MONZAEMON：The Love Suicides at Sonezaki

EJIMA KISEKI：A Wayward Wife

JIPPENSHA IKKU：Hizakurige

TAKIZAWA BAKIN：Shino and Hamaji

Haiku of the Middle and Late Tokugawa Period

Waka of the Tokugawa Period

Poetry and Prose in Chinese

Short Bibliography